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Increasingly today, careers are undergoing continuous definition as they have always done so. People now potentially have an increasingly greater choice over when, where, how to work and for how long. The emphasis is on capability which encompasses a broader skill base than the past with a greater focus on non-technical skills such as capacity and willingness to learn as the half-life of technical skills becomes shorter and shorter.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

—Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Notes

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    http://www.oecd.org/els/soc/SF_2_3_Age_mothers_childbirth.pdf.

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    Data for Canada and Mexico refer to 2011, for Chile to 2012, for Australia, Japan, and the United States to 2013, for New Zealand, Costa Rica and the Russian Federation to 2014, and for Israel and Korea to 2016.

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    https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21730674-gap-closing-millen.

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Brewer, A.M. (2018). What Is a Career?. In: Encountering, Experiencing and Shaping Careers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96956-5_2

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